A survey of methods and tools to detect recent and strong positive selection

Abstract Positive selection occurs when an allele is favored by natural selection. The frequency of the favored allele increases in the population and due to genetic hitchhiking the neighboring linked variation diminishes, creating so-called selective sweeps. Detecting traces of positive selection i...

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Main Authors: Pavlos Pavlidis, Nikolaos Alachiotis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Biological Research - Thessaloniki
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40709-017-0064-0